Roughly a year after a deadly oil train derailment killed 47 people in Lac-Mgantic, Quebec, about 200 miles southwest, the possibility of a similar incident has some members of the North Country concerned.

“We're seeing five to nine trains of 100 cars apiece. Each train carrying a million trains of crude oil,” said Adirondack Mountain Club Executive Director Neil Woodworth.

More than 100 local leaders and concerned neighbors converged at Plattsburgh City Hall on Thursday night for a community forum, including Green Party candidate for New York’s 21st congressional district, Matt Funiciello.

“We are going to force these oil barons to make sure that they transport their oil safely,” said Funiciello.

However, local leaders say enacting change is difficult.

“No state can make regulations that would impede federal commerce for the rail system which is a nationwide rail system, but they're right that it is a problem -- that it is a safety issue. We've taken a lot of precautions already that the state is instituting,” said Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday while visiting the Town of Jay.

“The training that we've done for ethanol fires -- the ethanol being moved on the tracks -- it's prepared us for the crude oil,” said Eric Day, Clinton County Emergency Services director.

While emergency services officials prepare to deal with a possible crude oil accident, some are concerned about American companies securing permits to transport other more dangerous substances on Adirondack railways.

“If that heater boiler unit is approved by December at the Port of Albany, and they start shipping Alberta tar sand and there is a spill into the lake, right now there is no spill plan,” said Woodworth.